Guatemala tries Mexican massacre suspects

The trial has opened in Guatemala of 14 alleged members of the Mexican drug cartelLos Zetas. The men have been charged with the murder of 11 people in 2008. Prosecutors say the killings were part of a turf war between Mexican and...

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Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Chris Hawley, USA TODAY Zetas gunmen broke into this immigration detention center in Acayucan and freed 13 Guatemalan recruits. By Chris Hawley, USA TODAY ACAYUCAN, Mexico  On a balmy night, five sport-utility vehicles full of gunmen roared up to the gates of the immigration detention center in Acayucan. They were on a rescue mission. The...

Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel appears to be extending its massive production of methamphetamine into neighboring Guatemala, as hundreds of tons of precursor chemicals stream into the Central American nation. While Mexico is usually estimated to be the main supplier of meth used in the United States, seizure data suggest that neighboring Guatemala could in fact be...

Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel appears to be extending its massive production of methamphetamine into neighboring Guatemala, as hundreds of tons of precursor chemicals stream into the Central American nation. While Mexico is usually estimated to be the main supplier of meth used in the United States, seizure data suggest that neighboring Guatemala could in fact be...

Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel appears to be extending its massive production of methamphetamine into neighboring Guatemala, as hundreds of tons of precursor chemicals stream into the Central American nation. While Mexico is usually estimated to be the main supplier of meth used in the United States, seizure data suggest that neighboring Guatemala could in fact be...

: Guatemala is struggling to contain a surge in drug smugglers from Mexican cartels who are increasingly controlling chunks of the border area, President Alvaro Colom said on Tuesday. Mexico's powerful drug gangs killed some 5,700 people in Mexico last year, as an army crackdown sparked fresh turf wars, and they are setting up camp in Guatemala where they use the porous border...

Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel appears to be extending its massive production of methamphetamine into neighboring Guatemala, as hundreds of tons of precursor chemicals stream into the Central American nation. While Mexico is usually estimated to be the main supplier of meth used in the United States, seizure data suggest that neighboring Guatemala could in fact be...

Crossing Mexico's Other Border

published:29 Mar 2013

Crossing Mexico's Other Border

Crossing Mexico's Other Border

published:29 Mar 2013

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When traveling from Central America to the United States through Mexico, immigrants are forced to battle drug cartels, corrupt police officers, and human traffickers, all before they even come close to the US border.
People tend to assume that the immigrants crossing the US--Mexico border are all Mexican. The reality is that a large percentage of them come from Central America, and their journey north is grueling. To get to the US, they first have to pass through Mexico, an ordeal that often ends up being even more difficult than getting into the United States. Most migrants cross into Mexico on rafts, via the Suchiate River. After that, they need to protect themselves from corrupt Mexican police, drug cartels like the infamous Zetas, and even fellow migrants. They often travel by foot and by pubic transit, but many of them ride on top of \"the Beast,\" the freight trains that travel from the south to the north of Mexico.
While the majority of the migrants are young men, a small percentage of them are women who endure hardships like the possibility of being raped by basically anyone they come across. Some of them are forced to stay in the border state of Chiapas and work as prostitutes because they are too weak to keep going, need to save some money to continue their journey, or, if they decide to stay , so they can travel back and forth between Mexico and their home countries to visit their kids[NJ1] .
In this episode of Fringes, we followed Yoana, a young girl from Guatemala who has been living in the small town of Huixtla, Chiapas, working as a prostitute to make money ...

Crossing Mexico's Other Border

published:29 Mar 2013

views:619751

When traveling from Central America to the United States through Mexico, immigrants are forced to battle drug cartels, corrupt police officers, and human traffickers, all before they even come close to the US border.
People tend to assume that the immigrants crossing the US--Mexico border are all Mexican. The reality is that a large percentage of them come from Central America, and their journey north is grueling. To get to the US, they first have to pass through Mexico, an ordeal that often ends up being even more difficult than getting into the United States. Most migrants cross into Mexico on rafts, via the Suchiate River. After that, they need to protect themselves from corrupt Mexican police, drug cartels like the infamous Zetas, and even fellow migrants. They often travel by foot and by pubic transit, but many of them ride on top of \"the Beast,\" the freight trains that travel from the south to the north of Mexico.
While the majority of the migrants are young men, a small percentage of them are women who endure hardships like the possibility of being raped by basically anyone they come across. Some of them are forced to stay in the border state of Chiapas and work as prostitutes because they are too weak to keep going, need to save some money to continue their journey, or, if they decide to stay , so they can travel back and forth between Mexico and their home countries to visit their kids[NJ1] .
In this episode of Fringes, we followed Yoana, a young girl from Guatemala who has been living in the small town of Huixtla, Chiapas, working as a prostitute to make money ...

Cesar Gastelum Serrano, a senior figure within Mexico\'s once-powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested by security forces on Saturday morning.
Serrano was travelling alone to avoid attention. He was carrying a pistol, two cell phones and about 700 grams of cocaine. While Serrano was changing vehicles, police sprung and arrested him.
Authorities say Serrano had been trafficking drugs into the United States and Mexico via Colombia, Honduras and Guatemala. He is also accused of using a scaffolding company to distribute several tonnes of cocaine per week.
Serrano was also allegedly involved in the killing of law enforcement officials in Honduras.
Serrano is a \'one of the most prolific cocaine suppliers\' for the Sinaloa drug cartel and an associate of Joaquin \'El Chapo\' Guzman, who was arrested two years ago.
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Cesar Gastelum Serrano, a senior figure within Mexico\'s once-powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested by security forces on Saturday morning.
Serrano was travelling alone to avoid attention. He was carrying a pistol, two cell phones and about 700 grams of cocaine. While Serrano was changing vehicles, police sprung and arrested him.
Authorities say Serrano had been trafficking drugs into the United States and Mexico via Colombia, Honduras and Guatemala. He is also accused of using a scaffolding company to distribute several tonnes of cocaine per week.
Serrano was also allegedly involved in the killing of law enforcement officials in Honduras.
Serrano is a \'one of the most prolific cocaine suppliers\' for the Sinaloa drug cartel and an associate of Joaquin \'El Chapo\' Guzman, who was arrested two years ago.
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Cesar Gastelum Serrano, a senior figure within Mexico’s once-powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested by security forces on Saturday morning.
Serrano was travelling alone to avoid attention. He was carrying a pistol, two cell phones and about 700 grams of cocaine. While Serrano was changing vehicles, police sprung and arrested him.
Authorities say Serrano had been trafficking drugs into the United States and Mexico via Colombia, Honduras and Guatemala. He is also accused of using a scaffolding company to distribute several tonnes of cocaine per week.
Serrano was also allegedly involved in the killing of law enforcement officials in Honduras.
Serrano is a ‘one of the most prolific cocaine suppliers’ for the Sinaloa drug cartel and an associate of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman.
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Authorities say Serrano had been trafficking drugs into the United States and Mexico via Colombia, Honduras and Guatemala. He is also accused of using a scaffolding company to distribute several tonnes of cocaine per week.
Serrano was also allegedly involved in the killing of law enforcement officials in Honduras.
Serrano is a ‘one of the most prolific cocaine suppliers’ for the Sinaloa drug cartel and an associate of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman.
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People tend to assume that the immigrants crossing the US--Mexico border are all M

Cesar Gastelum Serrano, a senior figure within Mexico\'s once-powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested by security forces on Saturday morning.
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United Nations, New York, December 2011 - In Guatemala, the drug war rages on as deadly cartels from neighbouring Mexico set their sights on parts of the cou...

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Mexican Drug War

The Mexican Drug War is an ongoing armed conflict between rival drug cartels fighting each other for regional control, and Mexican government forces. The government's principal goal has been to put down the drug-related violence that was raging between different drug cartels before any military intervention was made. In addition, the Mexican government has claimed that their primary focus is on dismantling the powerful drug cartels, rather than on drug trafficking prevention, which is left to U.S. functionaries.

Although Mexican drug cartels, or drug trafficking organizations, have existed for several decades, they have become more powerful since the demise of Colombia's Cali and Medellín cartels in the 1990s. Mexican drug cartels now dominate the wholesale illicit drug market by controlling 90% of the drugs that enter the United States. Arrests of key cartel leaders, particularly in the Tijuana and Gulf cartels, have led to increasing drug violence as cartels fight for control of the trafficking routes into the United States.